Relationship between the inflammatory molecular profile of breast carcinomas and distant metastasis development.

Inflammatory conditions may promote tumor progression and aggressiveness. In previous reports, we found a group of breast cancer tumors characterized by metalloprotease-11 (MMP-11) expression by intratumoral mononuclear inflammatory cells (MICs), which was associated with distant metastasis developm...

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Main Authors: Noemí Eiró, Lucía González, Luis O González, Belen Fernandez-Garcia, Maria Luz Lamelas, Laura Marín, Salomé González-Reyes, José Manuel del Casar, Francisco J Vizoso
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3493514?pdf=render